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J. 1-1. BRADSHAW.

HARNESS.

Patented Apr. 14, 1891.

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J' H- BRADSHAW.

HARNESS.

No. 450,134. PatentedApr. 14, 1891.

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Y advantage in drawing all kinds of agriculof, will hereinafter appear, and be particularly tical section through the connecting-bars and UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. BRADSHAN, OF -NORTHYAKIMA, VASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO JOSIAl-I VILEY, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 450,134, dated April 14, 1891.

Application lctl October 16, 1890.

lo all whom, may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. BRADSHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at North Yakima, in the county of Yakima and State of Washington, `have invented a new and useful Harness, of which the following is a specification.

This invention hasV relation to improvements in that class of harness adapted for heavy draft purposes, and especially for use inlogging, though, as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention may be used with great tural or other heavy and cumbersome implements'.

The objects and advantages of the invention, together with the novel features therepointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a harness constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, portions being broken away, of one of the hames. Fig. 3 is a perspective in detail of the vertical draft-bar. Fig. 4 is a verone of the hames.

Like numerals indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The harness is designed especially for double teams, and by its peculiar coristruction it will be observed that I obviate the usual traces or draft-chains at the sides of the animals, which tend to chate them by reason of the constant moving thereof and to so separate the animals as to prevent them from stepping upon each other when making short turns, and, withal, to provide an extremely cheap powerful harness, capable of disposing the strain in such a way as to prevent disabling the horses and throw-thesame upon such portions of the horses as are designed by nature to withstand it.

The haines 1 are of oval form and each is constructed of an upper and lower section, designated as 2 and 3, respectively. The upper section has its lower terminals provided with sockets 4, and the lower sections each has tenons 5 for entering the sockets, one tenon of each pair having a perforation 6, which is designed to register with a perfora- Serial No. 368,291. (No model.)

loops 10,in each of which is secured the front ends of a pair of side straps 11, the rear ends of the same connecting with a ring 12, which also has connected therewith the terminals of the back and girth straps 13 and 14, respectively.

At the upper and lower ends the hames are provided with vertically-disposed bearingstuds 15, and the upper and lower studs of the pairs of haines are connected by connecting yoke-bars 16, perforated, as at'17, near their ends for the introduction through the same of said studs, which latter work loosely in the perforations, and are themselves transversely perforated and provided with split locking-pins 17 to prevent accidental withdrawal ofthe lugs from the connecting-bars.

18 designates eyes or loops, which are connected to the centers of each of the connecting-bars 16, the eye or loop of one bar being vertically opposite that ofthe other.

20 designates a vertical draft-bar provided at its ends with loose swiveled hooks 21, each of which engages an eye 18, and between its ends with a vertical series of perforations 22, through which is passed a bolt 23, removably locked in position by means of a split pin 24, said bolt serving to connect to the draft-bar a draft-bail 25. To the bail is connected a single central draft-chain, to which the draft is applied.

From the above construction it will be apparent that I have succeeded in providing an extremely light, simple, strong, and durable harness especially adapted for the class of work hereinbefore mentioned, which harness consists of very few parts and are so disposed as to avoid crippling the animals, which latter are not encumbered bythe usual heavy straps, chains, and trimmings of a draft-har- IOO ness. The ease and facility with which the harness maybe applied to the horses will also be at once recognized, and, furthermore, that through the medium of the perforations in the vertical draft-bar the draft-bail may be raised or lowered, so as to throw the strain at the proper point of the animals.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Inaharness, the combination, with a pair of haines provided at their upper and lower ends with lugs or studs, of upper and lower transverse bars perforated at their ends to loosely connect the studs, locking-pins inserted through the studs outside of the bars, eyes located at the centers of the bars, a vertical draft-bar having end hooks engaging the" eyes, and a series of perforations and a draftbail removably mounted in one of said perforations, substantially as specified.

2. In a harness, the combination, with a pair of elliptical haines provided at their upper and lower ends with bearing-studs, each haine being laterally divided to form upper and lower sections, removably connected, of transverse bars having end openings engaging the studs, locking-pins passed through the studs, and a draft-bar connected loosely at its ends to the centers of the transverse bars and provided with a series of adjusting holes or perforations, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OSEPI-I II. BRADSIIAIV.

`\Vt-nesses:

GEO. W. CARY, CHARLES F. CHAMBERS. 

